Rightly lauded by Sight & Sound, Time Out and yours truly, Reha Erdem’s unique and challenging Turkish romance Kosmos (2010) is now available to own on DVD courtesy of UK distributor Verve Pictures. To celebrate this release, we’ve kindly been given THREE DVD copies of the film to give away Continue Reading
★☆☆☆☆ Cult actor Michael Biehn makes his directorial debut with The Victim (2011), screening at this year’s Film4 FrightFest. This weak attempt at grindhouse opens with two local cops taking two strippers into the woods for a ‘private party’. One of the crooked cops gets carried away and ends up Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Writer/director Conor McMahon showcases the cutting-edge humour of edgy British comedian Ross Noble in his feature debut, making Film4 FrightFest entry Stitches (2012) a pleasant surprise in a gross-out, schoolboy fashion. There are certainly a number of marked similarities to that other anarchic jester jape, Funny Man (1994). However, Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Ensemble effort V/H/S (2012) is just the type of film Amicus Productions would have churned out if they were still active. A portmanteau horror, with a returning narrative thread to string the short films together, V/H/S blends together a series of overly familiar and somewhat tired genre tropes and Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ One of the most anticipated films the play at this year’s 13th Film4 FrightFest, [Rec] 3: Genesis (2012) is the third instalment of Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s (on solo directorial duty here) much-admired Spanish zombie franchise. However, traditionalist Rec fans may well be in for a surprise with Continue Reading
Chosen as part of the official selection for the 2012 Venice Film Festival where it will premiere, the first trailer for erotic thriller Passion (2012) is now online. Directed by Brian De Palma, the film is likely to draw comparisons to such past efforts as Basic Instinct (1992) and the Continue Reading
Acclaimed Bavarian director Werner Herzog steps into the voice-over booth for dinosaur documentary Dinotasia (2011), available to own on DVD courtesy of UK distributor Picturehouse Entertainment. To celebrate this release, we’ve kindly been given THREE DVD copies of the film to give away to our lucky readers. This is an Continue Reading
